What Just Happened?

 


Jan 6, 2021; a grievance was laid on the table of public opinion. There is no excuse for violence at the Capital and those involved should and will be punished.  There is also no excuse for depicting peaceful demonstrators as riots.  I am personally opposed to large public demonstrations since they are subject to being usurped by anarchists leading to unforeseen consequences.  That said, peaceful demonstrations have been normalized political speech for many decades. The question is where to go from here?

A long view

The Republic can only survive with free and fair elections. A very large portion of the U.S. voting population is highly suspicious based on sworn eye witness testimony.  Our long view needs to focus on correcting that problem.  The aggrieved population numbers approximately 80 million.  That’s a lot of political power currently available to organize and pressure federal and state governments to clean up  elections.

 A short view

The aggrieved are being suppressed and silenced today. Perhaps a few million demonstrate a will to war against the swamp. That’s a action driven by emotion and destined  destroy the Republic in the process. 

I’m promoting the long view even though I’m not confident it can succeed.  We may have just witnessed the beginning of the end of government by the people.

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